To America's rather scanty... «Henry James: Autobiography»
innashpitzberg10 марта 2012To America's rather scanty treasure of true autobiographic literature, James's work is an important contribution. To be sure, the reminiscences of frontiersmen, immigrants, military leaders and captains of industry make up a rich and exciting store of native documents. But apart from The Education of Henry Adams, which James's book resembles so little even though the two authors were contemporaries and friends, and Hawthorne's brief but suggestive "The Custom House," which it resembles so much, we have few first-hand records of American experience which may be said to be thoroughly penetrated by what James calls "the wonder of consciousness in everything." His autobiography is one of the few.
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